# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gil-merrick
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:25:17.329Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gil-merrick"
name: "Gil Merrick"
slug: "gil-merrick"
description: "Gilbert Harold Merrick was an English footballer and football manager. Considered one of the best goalkeepers in the UK during the mid-1950s, Merrick was one in a long line of great Birmingham City keepers which included the likes of Johnny Schofield and Harry Hibbs. Merrick spent his entire career at Birmingham City, playing more than 700 times between 1939 and 1960. He made 170 appearances during the Second World War and 485 in the Football League following the end of the war. He won 23 caps for the England national team, and played in the 1954 World Cup. After retirement as a player, he managed the club for four years."
tagline: "English footballer (1922–2010)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1922-01-26"
deathDate: "2010-02-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.182266009852216
  historical:           15.10633866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Gil Merrick"
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    title: "Gil Merrick"
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    title: "Gil Merrick"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump